Saturday, February 13, 2010

For several years now, we have owned a cocorico roaster that we purchased from NapaStyle, Michael Chiarello's catalog. We have enjoyed watching his cooking show on television. We have used it several times with mixed emotions.

Directions state that the bird should sit in the roaster with drumsticks up. This just seemed rather awkward, not only for us positioning the bird, but also for the bird. So we usually put the bird on the roaster with the drumsticks down, like popular beer can style roasting.

Yesterday we tried once again with the drumsticks up. The bird roasts beautifully. We had some onions and a whole head of garlic roasting around the bottom with rosemary and garlic stuffed in the cavity.

I like the fact that the bird is not 'sitting' in the drippings as it roasts, but I certainly don't find this roaster a necessity. I'm curious if anyone has a cocorico roaster and if there are other experimental roasting this could be used for. Hmm...looks like a sombrero to me.

I have never seen this kind od pan. I have a metal rack that I sit the chicken and place this in my roastpan; kind of the same idea. If you add fresh gerbs inside the bird as well as under the skin;turns out really good. Haven't used this in ages.Rita

I have never even heard of such a thing! I am such a gadget junkie, that I have to really wait and see...sometimes I buy things that aren't really necessary...but, this definitely intrigues me. The chicken looks perfectly cooked, by the way. My stomach is growling and it's bedtime!